Learning disorders

A learning disorder is a mismatch between capability and output. The understanding is there; something between holding the information, sequencing it and getting it back out is not keeping up.

Where output falls behind capability

The gap is produced by holding and sequencing, and those live in two different systems.

Parietal lobes

Working memory, visual sequential memory, and the divided attention that a classroom demands.

Prefrontal cortex

Decision speed, problem-solving, reasoning and deduction, and the timing that keeps pace with a lesson.

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What people describe

The pattern that brings people here is a gap: capability in the room, and output that does not match it.

  • Understanding it in the room and losing it by the evening
  • Work that takes three times as long for the same result
  • Steps arriving out of order
  • Reading a page twice and retaining neither

How we work with it

Then the work itself

For this presentation that usually means Developmental Milestones, the parent-led inventory for birth through seventy-two months. A learning plan built on a single score treats everyone the same. A plan built on seven systems does not, which is the whole reason we assess the way we do.

Questions people ask

What people ask when a child understands the lesson and the output does not show it.

Is this the same as an IQ problem?

No. Our assessments are built around functional brain systems, because a single score tells you almost nothing about which system is struggling.

Developmental Milestones, a parent-led inventory from birth through seventy-two months across seven domains, run from home with remediation activities included.

The Individualized NeuroDevelopmental Profile, for ages seven through seniors.

For the work between appointments

What we hand parents to use at home, sold through our storefront.

My “Lived-Experience” Journal

Handwriting reaches memory and emotional processing along pathways typing does not. Shipped inside the US.

$14.95 USD

Children’s Relaxation: The Little Girl, The Dragon and The Owl

A bedtime story a child breathes along with, so the breathing is learned without being taught.

$9.95 USD

Functional Sign Language Manual

A practical signing dictionary for opening a channel with a child who is not yet speaking.

$14.95 USD

Prices in USD, as published in the storefront. Checkout, delivery and support for anything on this shelf run through store.cognitive-connections.com.

Find the gap between capability and output

Understanding in the room and losing it by evening is a memory and sequencing problem, not an effort problem. The assessment shows which.